Other Publications

"Two Minutes"

Flash on disappointing our mothers

The Bookends Review, November 2016

"A Hole to Nowhere"

On the post-college blues

Sixfold,
August 2018

"The Ice House"

On love, or something like it 

North Carolina's Emerging Writers:
An Anthology of Fiction,
August 2018

"Mall, 2004"

On being an awkward middle schooler at the mall

Flash Fiction Magazine,
May 2021

*Pushcart Prize Nominee* 

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"You Won't"

A twist on the contemporary femme fatale

The Writers Foundry Review,
July 2021

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"Westward Women, 1974"

A COVID fever dream 

Reed Magazine, Spring 2023

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Short Stories

*Pushcart Prize Nominee* 

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"Accidents"

An Appalachian fairytale

Appalachian Heritage,
Winter 2017

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“Learning from their Stories: Incorporating Narrative Structure to Support Academically At-Risk Students”

On helping students feel in charge of their own stories

Academic Advising Today,
Fall 2019

“To Act as Interpreter’: Organizing Labor(s) in the Ladies’ Christian Union”

On cross-class communication in nineteenth-century women’s voluntary association meeting minutes

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers,
forthcoming

“Exploring Digital Recovery Pedagogy Through a Feminist Lens”

An introduction to a special issue on how to responsibly incorporate digital pedagogy into writing-based classrooms

Feminist Pedagogy, forthcoming

"The Invisible Center: Women’s Social Networking in Autograph Albums, 1820-1860"

On women’s intimate social strategies in nineteenth-century American autograph albums

J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists,
forthcoming

Academic Writing

“Under the Shadow of Love,”

A review of Pam Durban’s, "The Tree of Forgetfulness"

Carolina Quarterly, April 2013

“Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir”

A review of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel on female friendship

Shelf Awareness, September 7, 2021

“Whispers Through the Glass”

A personal essay about my incomparable grandmother

Her Stry,
November 2021

“Claire Keegan on Writing as an Act of Faith”

An interview with Claire Keegan and a review of her book, Small Things Like These

Shelf Awareness, December 3, 2021

“Sentences Pressing Up Again Sentences”

An interview with Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries

Shelf Awareness, March 2024

"To Have a Body"

A piece of creative nonfiction on post-industrial suburbs, yard sales, and things easily broken

Los Angeles Review,
May 2024

“Sheila Heti and the Socially Mediated Self”

A deep-dive on Heti’s oeuvre, from the people who live in our heads to the diaries we write about them

Triangle House Review, July 2024

Essays, Reviews, Etc.

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